Employment Relations

Starting and hiring

• Who is an employee
• Who is a contractor
• Employment relationship
  • Good faith
  • Employment agreements
    • The Employment Agreement Builder
    • Types of employment agreements
    • Relevant collective agreements
    • Required process
    • Collective bargaining
    • Trial period
    • Probation periods
    • Appointment letters
    • Mandatory clauses
  • Induction
  • Wages and records
  • Rest and meal breaks
  • Establishing a performance management system
• How to hire guide
  • Describing and advertising the job
  • Receiving applications through to interview
  • Selecting and appointing
  • Getting the worker started
• Unions and collective bargaining
  • Joining a union
  • Union membership rights
  • Rights of employees engaged in union activities
  • Union access to workplaces
  • Registration
  • Collective bargaining
    • Communications during bargaining
    • Collective agreements
    • Undermining collectives by "passing on"
    • Duration of the collective agreement
    • Procedures
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Code of good faith
  • Forms

Tools

• Frequently asked questions
• Holidays and leave tool
• Employment agreement builder
• Paid parental leave calculator
• Employment law database
• VisaView - employer online service

Resources

• Unions and Collective Bargaining [PDF, 12 pages, 517Kb]
• How to hire - guide for employers [PDF, 40 pages 279Kb]
• Sample letters of appointment
• Employment relationships - from beginning to end [PDF 22 pages, 566Kb]
• My first job

Related information

• Unions registered under the Employment Relations Act 2000 [PDF 5 pages, 181KB]
• Registration Form [PDF 20KB]
• Statutory declaration [ PDF 7KB]
• Employment Relations (Prescribed Matters) Regulations 2000
• Union membership return for 2009 [PDF 20KB]